Strictly speaking, Zhu Yunwen knew nothing about recruit training, but as an emperor, he did not need to be proficient in details. That was what ministers needed to do. The emperor only needed to be in a high position and coordinate the overall situation.
With the perspective of later generations and the foundation of history, Zhu Yunwen drafted a complete training plan.
The plan is divided into five parts: physical training, ideological construction, battle formation layout, equipment update, and special forces construction.
It is mixed with special forces training methods learned from TV and movies, ancient battlefield military command methods, ancient military training methods of outstanding generals, etc.
Needless to say, there is no need to mention physical fitness. In the Ming Dynasty, which was dominated by cold weapons, the physical fitness, quality and combat effectiveness of individual soldiers were directly related to the outcome of the battlefield.
Strengthening physical training is inevitable.
You can't fight with soldiers who gasp for breath after taking three steps and fall to the ground after taking ten steps, right?
In terms of ideological construction, Zhu Yunwen did not dare to mention communism. After much deliberation, the best result of instilling Marxism-Leninism was that he would be knocked down, so he should forget it.
As an emperor, you should start from the emperor's point of view and respect objective facts. This is called historical materialism.
Without belief in Marxism-Leninism, we can promote the heroic spirit of "shrouding corpses in horse leather", the patriotic spirit of "serving the country with loyalty," and the national spirit of "sharing the worries of the king and bringing peace to the world."
The rewards of being promoted to official positions and benefiting their descendants are enough to make soldiers willingly work for the court.
Zhu Yunwen didn't talk much about the layout of battle formations. After all, this aspect was the specialty of military commanders. But here, Zhu Yunwen still put forward the idea of "three major camps" and advocated practicing new battle formations and tactics.
Zhu Yunwen paid special attention to the issue of equipment updates.
Yes, there were already guns and ammunition in the early Ming Dynasty, but at this time the long guns were called fire guns and the short guns were called hand guns. However, the range of these things was really limited, ranging from tens to two hundred meters.
Moreover, after firing one shot, it needs to be reloaded before firing the second shot, making it difficult to form a complete fire network.
With a shooting range of two hundred meters, for the cavalry that rushes over quickly, they will come over with their sabers before you have even fired two shots.
As for artillery, although the "Folangji" has not yet been introduced to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still has some artillery, such as the Shenqian chariot cannon, the general cannon, etc.
This thing is okay, the range is longer, it can reach 3 kilometers, and even exceed 4 kilometers.
But this thing is just a pile of iron lumps, weighing between 200 and 400 kilograms. At this time, there was no truck or train transportation in Ming Dynasty, and there was no asphalt road. When it rained, the road was muddy. Who could carry this thing.
Besides, war requires speed, rapid penetration, and rapid maneuverability. How many miles can you cover in a day with a cannon just waiting for you?
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, this thing was mostly used to defend the city, or after surrounding the enemy's city, cannons were brought over to blast the city gates open.
It is impossible to treat them as an independent unit and deploy them into battle formations.
Now, Zhu Yunwen made it clear that he would not only form a firecrackers team, but also a cannon team, and he also gave him a resounding name:
Artillery Corps.
As for the special forces, Zhu Yunwen's requirements were even stricter, requiring that 4,000 elites be selected from the 400,000-strong Beijing army for special training, a veritable one in a hundred.
Rujun, Minister of the Ministry of War, looked at this nearly 10,000-word document, and his hands trembled slightly. He looked up at Tie Xuan, and saw that the shock on Tie Xuan's face had not faded, and his eyes were full of admiration and appreciation.
"Is this really what the emperor did?"
Ru Yu couldn't imagine it.
If the current emperor really has such insight, then the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous in culture and military affairs!
The real prosperous age is coming!
And when the time comes, my name will definitely remain in the history books!
Tie Xuan gradually regained his composure, nodded heavily, and couldn't help but admire: "The emperor's move must be feasible, and the way to strengthen the army must be completed in our hands. Only now do I understand that these are the ten principles of disarmament by the emperor." Wan’s true confidence!”
Ru Yu lowered his head and glanced at the strategy for recruiting new soldiers, shook his head slightly, and said: "I, Ru Ru, have been the Minister of the Ministry of War for nearly ten years, and I have never heard such true insights. Now, the emperor, first implements the cabinet, purges the court, and then implements the strategy for recruiting new soldiers. Temper the new army. It seems that our Holy Lord has far-reaching plans."
Tie Xuan put away the document and looked at it seriously, saying, "This matter still needs to be discussed with Duke Wei."
"Wei Guogong? Only Wei Guogong?"
Ru Yu was taken aback.
Tie Xuan looked at Ru Yu and suddenly understood.
Logically speaking, although the emperor trusted Wei Guogong Xu Huizu, he should not dislike Cao Guogong Li Jinglong. However, the emperor never mentioned Li Jinglong at all.
This means that Li Jinglong does not have the Sacred Heart.
Tie Xuan frowned slightly and said, "We are just following the Holy Spirit's will. As for the rest, that is not something that our Ministry of War can do."
The overt and covert fighting in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion has not yet affected the Ministry of War.
Tie Xuan didn't want to get involved. He just wanted to refine the strategy for new recruits as soon as possible and train the Beijing army.
Wuying Hall, side hall.
Zhu Yunwen simply drew a map of the world according to his memory, looked in the direction of South America, and then turned his eyes to the direction of Europe.
The thirty-first year of Hongwu, that is, 1398 AD.
Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio have probably passed away for decades, but the Renaissance in Europe is still going on.
The Hundred Years War between England and France is probably still going on, right?
European capitalism began to sprout, and in a few decades the Age of Discovery would begin.
There is not much time left for Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunwen knew clearly that if the navy and navigation were not valued, China would become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in more than four hundred years. By then, foreigners would be burning, killing, looting, and doing whatever they wanted on the land of China!
Zhu Yunwen doesn't want this kind of history to happen again.
However, it is not easy to take a long voyage.
One of the biggest factors is lack of money.
Zhu Yunwen has been to the inner treasury. Although it is full of things, it does not belong to him alone.
In fact, many people believe that the inner treasury is the private property of the emperor. Strictly speaking, this view is wrong.
Because during the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, Lao Zhu thought, the world belongs to me, why do I still need to set up private money?
Superfluous!
"The ruler regards the four seas as his home, and consolidates the wealth of the world for the use of the world. Can he distinguish between public and private affairs? Taizong, the Mingjun of the Song Dynasty, is also like this!"
These are Zhu Yuanzhang's original words.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that the demise of the Song Dynasty was related to the royal family setting up an internal treasury and using the country's wealth for "private wealth."
Therefore, the inner treasury in the early Ming Dynasty was actually the national treasury.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang set up an internal treasury system, but lacked effective supervision and management. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang had never studied economics, so he printed banknotes at every turn, and they were not linked to gold and silver.
By the time of Zhu Yunwen, the national economy was already in some bad shape.
Zhu Yuanzhang also realized this problem in the later period. For example, the salary of officials was adjusted from Lu Chao and Lumi to Lumi.
There is no way, money is not easy to use.
In addition to the taxation in the Ming Dynasty, a large part was taxation. To put it bluntly, it was food payment.
During the Zhu Yunwen period, it was considered good to have three million taels of silver in the central treasury. Of course, if the grain is counted as currency, its income is still more than 10 million taels of silver.
But more than half of this money and food was used to feed the army. King Sai's army, the army in the capital, and the local army all require money and food.
There are also officials who also need salaries.
Especially those princes and relatives of the emperor, none of them have any abilities, and each of them receives a lot of salary, even more than the cabinet ministers.
If the spending continues, the national treasury will basically bottom out every year.
Zhu Yunwen sighed. As long as there is a few more years of peaceful development, the Ming Dynasty's economy can improve. However, with the current situation, can peace really be achieved?
Zhu Di is a strong man. Will he choose to fight to the end or surrender?
Zhu Yunwen wasn't sure.
"Industry and commerce."
Zhu Yunwen rubbed his brows. If the industrial and commercial blockade could not be lifted and Zhu Yunwen could only rely on the output of farmers' fields to make Ming Dynasty rich, it would be almost a fantasy.
However, there were no merchants in Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang hated merchants and even issued an order to "hunt and kill anyone who is not a producer." It can be said that among the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the dynasty with the lowest status of merchants was the Ming Dynasty!
This may be related to Zhu Yuanzhang's background, and profiteers had killed his family members. Zhu Yuanzhang always believed that businessmen and corrupt officials were equally hateful and needed to be suppressed.
In the early Ming Dynasty, there were only military, agricultural, and craftsman registrations, but no commercial registration at all.
Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business has become a basic national policy of Zhu Yuanzhang.
If you want to change this national policy, the biggest difficulty is not Zhu Yuanzhang who is already lying in Xiaoling, but the basic Confucian thinking of "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business".
The hope of becoming an official is stability and the development of the agricultural economy.
merchant?
Today I am in the capital, tomorrow I will arrive in Beizhili, and the day after tomorrow I may end up at sea. Do I care?
They all need to stay on the land and be tied up so that they can be managed easily, right?
Besides, all the businessmen have made money away, forming a large number of rich people. There will be less money in the world, so how can the common people live?
This may have been the sentiment of officials of that era.
However, history has proved that the corrupt system cannot restrain the lion of economic law.
Businessmen in the Ming Dynasty have many methods, such as registering, buying a piece of land first, and making it clear that I am a farmer and I am a farmer. But as for why I am in business, am I not allowed to start a side business?
If it doesn't work, collude with some military households, get a military certificate, and find a nephew to join the army instead of you. I am a military master, can you handle some business?
This kind of merchant collective, covered with a layer of skin, became one of the important driving forces of the Ming Dynasty economy.
The shackles on their bodies are still very, very heavy.
Zhu Yunwen knows that businessmen must be legalized, which is the key to releasing market energy.
As for how the fierce bull of business will move forward, it depends on how you lead it.
However, now is not the time, because Zhu Di is about to enter Beijing.
